NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded and AMD Radeon RX 5500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

  • 526.2x more texture fill rate: 85.44 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
  • 4.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 150 Watt
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 150 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • 3.8x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 435 MHz
  • Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1335 MHz
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 73% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 443
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8814 vs 6851
  • Around 7% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42314 vs 39684
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 435 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 vs 443
PassMark - G3D Mark 8814 vs 6851
Geekbench - OpenCL 42314 vs 39684

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 5500

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
443
766
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6851
8814
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
39684
42314
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon RX 5500
PassMark - G2D Mark 443 766
PassMark - G3D Mark 6851 8814
Geekbench - OpenCL 39684 42314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon RX 5500

Essentials

Architecture Ampere RDNA
Code name GA107S
Place in performance rating 259 257
Launch date 7 Oct 2019
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz 1845 MHz
Core clock speed 435 MHz 1670 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 85.44 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS (1:1) 10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS 5.2 TFLOPs
Pipelines 2048
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s 59 GP/s
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s 162.36 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 150 Watt
Compute units 22
Stream Processors 1408
Transistor count 6400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1 x 8-pin
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 88.00 GB/s 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support